La-5 - The Soviet Game Changer

The Lavochkin La-5 was a Soviet fighter that saw action in the later years of the Second World War. It was possibly the most important Soviet fighter of the conflict, as it became the first to achieve a rough parity with German types used on the Eastern Front.

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00:04 History
11:18 Opinion and Conclusion

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Sources

Lavochkin Fighters of the Second World War – Jason Nicholas Moore

Black Cross Red Star no. 4 and 5 – Christer Bergström

La-5/7 vs Fw 190 Eastern Front 1942-45 – Dmitri Khazanov and
Aleksander Medved

Soviet Combat Aircraft of the Second World War, Volume One: Single-Engined Fighters – Yefim Gordon and Dmitri Khazanov

Aircraft of the Aces no. 56 - LaGG & Lavochkin Aircraft of World War 2 – George Mellinger

Lavockin La-5 – Miloš Veštšík and Jiří Vraný

Russian Piston Aero-Engines – Vladimir Kotelnikov

Butcher Bird – The Focke-Wulf Fw 190 – Edward Shacklady

Focke Wulf Jagdflugzeug – Fw 190 A, Fw 190 ”Dora”, Ta 152 H – Peter Rodeike

Several smaller sources like aircraft manuals and tests


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